Create a Windows 10 System Image Backup Something you should do every few months Windows 10 is probably the most stable and usable OS Microsoft has released since Windows 7. However, that doesn’t mean you won’t run into serious issues at some point. I always make sure I create a full system image of my Windows 10 PC every several months. When you create a system image, you can restore the entire OS back to the same hard drive or a new one and it will include all your installed programs, settings, etc....

3 Free Tools to Benchmark a Windows Gaming PC Because the rest of them kinda suck I recently bought my first custom gaming PC and the first thing I wanted to check after I got it was how well it benchmarked against other gaming systems. I started searching and testing out a bunch of benchmark programs for Windows, but realized quickly that only a few were good. In this article, I’m going to write about three of my favorite benchmark programs and how to use them....

Find and Change Your Hostname in Ubuntu In both the GUI and Terminal If you need to know the name of your Ubuntu computer, this post shows you several ways to find it. We will will also show you how to easily change your host name. In Ubuntu 17.x, there is a device name and a host name, which seem to be different. The device name shows up in the GUI and the host name shows up in Terminal....

View the List of Services Hosted by the svchost.exe Process in Windows Help you fix problems more easily Svchost.exeis a process that hosts other Windows services that perform various system functions. There can be multiple instances ofsvchost.exerunning on your computer, with each instance containing a different service. We published a post a while back on what you can do ifsvchost.exe is using up a high percentage of your CPU. In this article, I’m going to show you a couple of ways you view the actual process or service that is running inside svchost....

How to Fix a Low Disk Space Warning in Windows We’ll show you the best free tool to use Even though traditional hard drives have gotten cheaper over the years, a lot of people still have primary drives that are 500 GB or less in size. Why? Well, mostly because newer computers come with solid states drives (SSDs) and the larger sizes are just too expensive. If you’re getting a low disk space warning in Windows, there are a couple of things you can do to get some free space back....